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16 July 2014

This paper suggests that there is a way to arrive at an approximate, dependable estimate of the number of Aboriginal frontier casualties at the hands of colonial Queensland’s Native Police Force. By using data that provides accurate information on the number and duration of Native Police barracks and camps, the frequency of patrols, the surviving records of clashes and dispersals of Aborigines, as well as reported body counts, it is possible to arrive at a defensible mathematical estimate of the quotient of state sponsored frontier killings across some forty years of frontier interaction 1859-1897. Furthermore, this makes it possible to suggest a better estimate of the total Aboriginal death toll at the hands of both Native Police and settler colonists.
In this account the authors have conservatively arrived at the startling calculation that approximately 65,180 Aborigines were killed in Queensland frontier clashes alone between the 1820s and the 1900s. When the non-Aboriginal frontier death rate is added to this figure, it rises to an aggregate of 66,680 – a number substantially exceeding the Australian combat death rate in World War One.

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11 July 2014

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10 July 2014

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09 July 2014

Chris Graham is the owner and editor of New Matilda. He is the former managing editor of Tracker magazine and the National Indigenous Times, was the Associate Producer of John Pilger’s documentary Utopia, and is a Walkley Award and Human Rights Award winning journalist.

Speaking about a recent story on New Matilda about a Queensland woman dressing up as an Ethopian woman, painting her face and body in black paint.

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08 July 2014

Jenny Munro a well-known Aboriginal activist and spokesperson for the Redfern Tent Embassy speaking about the protest over the construction on the controversial Pemulwuy project, which would see commercial developments for non-Aboriginal people built on The Block.

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07 July 2014

James Saunders is from the Killcare clan of the Gunditjmara nation in south west Victoria. James runs his own recently launched digital PR agency Mopoke Media. James is also a member of the Sydney Convicts, Australia’s first gay rugby team.

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27 June 2014

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25 June 2014

Eva Cox is a feminist activist who still believes it is possible to make societies more civil, responsible and fair. She is a sociologist by trade, a researcher who finds evidence for the benefits of valuing social goals over economic ones. Her two grandsons make gender fairness a serious priority, so they too can choose the roles that suit them, not just those prescribed by others’ assumptions. Her political interests are fired by her arrival here as a post war refugee. She is a Professorial Fellow at the Indigenous House of Learning at UTS.

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18 June 2014

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17 June 2014

Ngiare Brown is the Deputy Chair of the Federal Governments Indigenous Advisory Council, Professor of Indigenous Health & Education at Woolongong University and works for National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)